VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 464 553
Rank change year-on-year -49 +89 +151
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 75 52 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.088%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.61% 0.55% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 25 19
10th Percentile £415 £438 £318
25th Percentile £473 £513 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £613
90th Percentile £650 £720 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £583 £467
% change year-on-year -5.58% +24.77% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,359 9,492 12,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.96% 29.86% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,105 5,758 8,144
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £540
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.31% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 946 455 755
10th Percentile £16.13 £18.94 £15.37
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.38 £79.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -17.00% +11.11%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 58 £569 -2.31% 18
Work from Home +5 30 £532 -11.33% 11
UK excluding London -63 29 £550 -5.58% 15
London +1 24 £575 +2.22% 6
South East -19 12 £575 -6.88% 5
North of England -33 7 £465 -7.08% 6
North West - 7 £465 - 5
South West -25 6 £630 +5.00% 1
Midlands - 2 £513 - 3
East of England -19 1 £563 +151.68%
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
Scotland - 1 £225 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (6.67%) AWS
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.67%) IaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) Firewall
2 9 (12.00%) VSAN
3 8 (10.67%) DHCP
3 8 (10.67%) DNS
3 8 (10.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (6.67%) VPN
5 4 (5.33%) Network Security
5 4 (5.33%) PCoIP
6 3 (4.00%) SAN
6 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.67%) IPFIX
7 2 (2.67%) VXLAN
7 2 (2.67%) WAN
8 1 (1.33%) BGP
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.33%) NAS
8 1 (1.33%) OSPF
8 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.00%) Git
2 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.33%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Electronics
5 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing
5 2 (2.67%) Military
6 1 (1.33%) Advertising
6 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (36.00%) Consultant
2 24 (32.00%) VMware Consultant
3 16 (21.33%) VMware Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Architect
4 9 (12.00%) VMware Specialist
5 8 (10.67%) Principal Consultant
6 7 (9.33%) Azure Consultant
7 6 (8.00%) PowerShell Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior
8 5 (6.67%) Hyper-V Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) PowerShell Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) VMware Architect
9 4 (5.33%) Wintel Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) Exchange Migration Consultant
11 2 (2.67%) Lead
11 2 (2.67%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Replication
2 8 (10.67%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.00%) PKI
4 4 (5.33%) Clustering
5 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.67%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.33%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Windows
2 12 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.00%) Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (14.67%) Migration
3 7 (9.33%) Agile
3 7 (9.33%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (8.00%) ITIL
4 6 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (6.67%) Cloud Security
5 5 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (6.67%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (6.67%) High Availability
5 5 (6.67%) Runbook
5 5 (6.67%) SIEM
6 4 (5.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (5.33%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (65.33%) PowerShell
2 45 (60.00%) Python
3 32 (42.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.67%) SQL
5 3 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (24.00%) VCAP
4 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (13.33%) MCSE
6 9 (12.00%) MCSA
7 5 (6.67%) CCNP
7 5 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.00%) Degree
8 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.00%) OCA
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.67%) CCNA
9 2 (2.67%) CISSP
9 2 (2.67%) GSEC
9 2 (2.67%) HP ASE
9 2 (2.67%) VCDX
System Software
1 38 (50.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (34.67%) vSphere
3 14 (18.67%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (17.33%) VMware NSX
5 10 (13.33%) Active Directory
6 9 (12.00%) Hyper-V
7 7 (9.33%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (5.33%) Docker
9 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.33%) Firmware
10 1 (1.33%) NFS
10 1 (1.33%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 35 (46.67%) vRealize
2 15 (20.00%) Ansible
3 12 (16.00%) vCenter Server
4 9 (12.00%) Terraform
5 6 (8.00%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.33%) PowerCLI
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.67%) vMotion
9 1 (1.33%) SCOM
9 1 (1.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Cisco
4 5 (6.67%) Veeam
5 4 (5.33%) Dell
6 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
6 3 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.67%) 3PAR
7 2 (2.67%) Citrix
7 2 (2.67%) F5
7 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 2 (2.67%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (2.67%) ProCurve
7 2 (2.67%) SAP
8 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.33%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.33%) NetApp
8 1 (1.33%) Nokia